The last episode left us with Samuel blackmailing Hiro with Charlie stuck in time. Now all of the sudden he has free time to get a Visitor's badge at Claire's college and find his niece, Becky. How this makes sense, I don't really know. One could argue that Hiro was stuck three years in the past, and all that is water under the bridge by now. If that is the case, then I digress. I just thought it was worth mentioning...
Claire's storyline has been sporadically missing from my blog due to the extreme impertinence of sorority life. If I wanted to learn how to try to fit in to college, I would just rent a bunch of shitty movies with Sean Williams Scott in them. But that is neither here nor there. Right now, Claire's roommate (the one she kissed, revealed her identity to, and developed feelings for) got scared and moved back home. Why was she scared? Was she afraid she might not be able to control herself around the adorable Hayden Panatierre? Hardly. An invisible sorority sister has been trying to kill Claire's new girlfriend to isolate her. She wants her to lose everyone around her so Samuel's carnival looks as appealing as a backrub after a hard day's work. Or does she?
Isolation is not the only motivation for our disappearing friend. When a make-upless Samuel awkardly knocks on Claire's door and gives her the "Be a part of my special family" spiel, he reveals that Becky is a "very disturbed girl". Yeah, I've figured that one out on my own. He goes on like he always does as Claire tactfully listens in the doorframe, her back to no one. Meanwhile, Noah has come to Haitian the two girls that saw Claire heal in the sorority hazing. Seeing Gretchen run away in fear of her invisible enemy, he searches Becky's room. He holds a tazer at the ready and she manifests herself after he threatens to hurt her. Nice. It is then that Becky reveals her alterior motives for targetting Claire.
Mr. Bennet had burst into Becky's house as a child, and as her father defended his home, Noah took his life. "Shoot now, ask questions later" Samuel mocked him. She hid under the bed and made it her personal vendetta to kill the man that caused her so much pain. Kind of sweet. Kind of cheap. I've seen this in Sawyer from LOST and Oren Ishii in Kill Bill. But whatever. It's kind of cool to see Noah's past catch up to him again.
Samuel explains this to Claire as Becky explains herself to Noah, and then Samuel challenges Claire's loyalty by asking what Mr. Bennet would do in her situation. Out of nowhere, Noah comes in with a gun and says "Yeah, what would Mr. Bennett do?" So badass. I want it as a ringtone. Noah keeps his gun pointed at Samuel and demands answers. This cuts to them somehow in a parking lot with handcuffs and an SUV? I dunno, it was kind of silly. Becky comes in all invisible and saves the day (Samuel) and gets out of control. Samuel ends up tazing her to stop it. Claire ends up stopping Noah from shooting them, but gets pushed to the ground by her own father. What the fuck, Noah? Samuel and Becky run away.
Peter and Emma continue to get closer in the hospital. Emma is becoming more confident in her human abilities (a la medical school), and Peter uses his Jeremy power to heal patients on their way to the emergency room. The downside? The healing power drains all of the energy out of him and he ends up looking like hell after each heroic act. Emma notices this, and they both encourage each other to... whatever, be good characters on the show. They end up saving some 5-year-old girl in a princess outfit in a supply closet (yeah, I don't know either), and have another heartfelt moment by the piano. "You saved her." Peter tells Emma.'You saved me." She tells Peter. Damn. Kiss him already!
Back in Los Angeles, Sylar/Matt goes on a trip to New York to visit Peter and attempt to kill him. Even though we all know it probably won't work, Sylar can at least try. Although Matt is no longer in control, he can mess with Sylar enough to postpone Peter's fate. He puts guns in Sylar's luggage, makes him get flat tires, all sorts of comical travel annoyances we dread when travelling cross-country. But you know what they say, "It's all fun and games until someone gets a tire iron to the skull." Or something like that. Sylar figures out that whatever he does in Matt's body gets blamed on Matt, so he isn't afraid to kill anyone and everyone. He claims that the world is his hostage. Ass.
The two of them end up at the same damn diner Charlie worked at in the last episode. He reminisces about it in a way that only Sylar could, "I almost killed a waitress here once." So much for my theory that that act could change his outlook on life. More like a knotch that never made it to his bedpost.Matt holds back and goes along with everything Sylar wants to do to prevent any more deaths. Or does he?
At the end of this episode Matt does what he should have done a long, long time ago. He sacrifices himself. While Sylar was busy thinking of Hiro and Charlie three years ago, Matt was controlling his hands and his doodles on the napkin in front of him. Matt/Sylar hands the waitress her money and a note that says "I have a gun and I'm going to kill everyone in here." Yes. As Sylar/Matt leaves the diner, a nice cutaway shot shows the waitress calling the police. By the time SyMatt reaches his car, he is surrounded by cops, weapons drawn.
Matt motions inside his pocket which makes Sylar do the same. It looks like he is reaching for a gun and Sylar pleads with Matt. "You'll die with me."
"I know." Our noble hero takes one for the team and pulls his hand out fast, getting riddled with bullets. Sylar falls to his knees, and Matt fizzles into nothingness. A shot later shows Matt in an ambulance, the paramedics stating that his heart isn't beating, and that he won't make it. But they never tell you for sure. I just hope this works out better than the Get Drunk To Kill Sylar idea.
Godspeed, Matt Parkman. You were always nice to me in those Mcdonald's commercials about online monopoly.
Claire's storyline has been sporadically missing from my blog due to the extreme impertinence of sorority life. If I wanted to learn how to try to fit in to college, I would just rent a bunch of shitty movies with Sean Williams Scott in them. But that is neither here nor there. Right now, Claire's roommate (the one she kissed, revealed her identity to, and developed feelings for) got scared and moved back home. Why was she scared? Was she afraid she might not be able to control herself around the adorable Hayden Panatierre? Hardly. An invisible sorority sister has been trying to kill Claire's new girlfriend to isolate her. She wants her to lose everyone around her so Samuel's carnival looks as appealing as a backrub after a hard day's work. Or does she?
Isolation is not the only motivation for our disappearing friend. When a make-upless Samuel awkardly knocks on Claire's door and gives her the "Be a part of my special family" spiel, he reveals that Becky is a "very disturbed girl". Yeah, I've figured that one out on my own. He goes on like he always does as Claire tactfully listens in the doorframe, her back to no one. Meanwhile, Noah has come to Haitian the two girls that saw Claire heal in the sorority hazing. Seeing Gretchen run away in fear of her invisible enemy, he searches Becky's room. He holds a tazer at the ready and she manifests herself after he threatens to hurt her. Nice. It is then that Becky reveals her alterior motives for targetting Claire.
Mr. Bennet had burst into Becky's house as a child, and as her father defended his home, Noah took his life. "Shoot now, ask questions later" Samuel mocked him. She hid under the bed and made it her personal vendetta to kill the man that caused her so much pain. Kind of sweet. Kind of cheap. I've seen this in Sawyer from LOST and Oren Ishii in Kill Bill. But whatever. It's kind of cool to see Noah's past catch up to him again.
Samuel explains this to Claire as Becky explains herself to Noah, and then Samuel challenges Claire's loyalty by asking what Mr. Bennet would do in her situation. Out of nowhere, Noah comes in with a gun and says "Yeah, what would Mr. Bennett do?" So badass. I want it as a ringtone. Noah keeps his gun pointed at Samuel and demands answers. This cuts to them somehow in a parking lot with handcuffs and an SUV? I dunno, it was kind of silly. Becky comes in all invisible and saves the day (Samuel) and gets out of control. Samuel ends up tazing her to stop it. Claire ends up stopping Noah from shooting them, but gets pushed to the ground by her own father. What the fuck, Noah? Samuel and Becky run away.
Peter and Emma continue to get closer in the hospital. Emma is becoming more confident in her human abilities (a la medical school), and Peter uses his Jeremy power to heal patients on their way to the emergency room. The downside? The healing power drains all of the energy out of him and he ends up looking like hell after each heroic act. Emma notices this, and they both encourage each other to... whatever, be good characters on the show. They end up saving some 5-year-old girl in a princess outfit in a supply closet (yeah, I don't know either), and have another heartfelt moment by the piano. "You saved her." Peter tells Emma.'You saved me." She tells Peter. Damn. Kiss him already!
Back in Los Angeles, Sylar/Matt goes on a trip to New York to visit Peter and attempt to kill him. Even though we all know it probably won't work, Sylar can at least try. Although Matt is no longer in control, he can mess with Sylar enough to postpone Peter's fate. He puts guns in Sylar's luggage, makes him get flat tires, all sorts of comical travel annoyances we dread when travelling cross-country. But you know what they say, "It's all fun and games until someone gets a tire iron to the skull." Or something like that. Sylar figures out that whatever he does in Matt's body gets blamed on Matt, so he isn't afraid to kill anyone and everyone. He claims that the world is his hostage. Ass.
The two of them end up at the same damn diner Charlie worked at in the last episode. He reminisces about it in a way that only Sylar could, "I almost killed a waitress here once." So much for my theory that that act could change his outlook on life. More like a knotch that never made it to his bedpost.Matt holds back and goes along with everything Sylar wants to do to prevent any more deaths. Or does he?
At the end of this episode Matt does what he should have done a long, long time ago. He sacrifices himself. While Sylar was busy thinking of Hiro and Charlie three years ago, Matt was controlling his hands and his doodles on the napkin in front of him. Matt/Sylar hands the waitress her money and a note that says "I have a gun and I'm going to kill everyone in here." Yes. As Sylar/Matt leaves the diner, a nice cutaway shot shows the waitress calling the police. By the time SyMatt reaches his car, he is surrounded by cops, weapons drawn.
Matt motions inside his pocket which makes Sylar do the same. It looks like he is reaching for a gun and Sylar pleads with Matt. "You'll die with me."
"I know." Our noble hero takes one for the team and pulls his hand out fast, getting riddled with bullets. Sylar falls to his knees, and Matt fizzles into nothingness. A shot later shows Matt in an ambulance, the paramedics stating that his heart isn't beating, and that he won't make it. But they never tell you for sure. I just hope this works out better than the Get Drunk To Kill Sylar idea.
Godspeed, Matt Parkman. You were always nice to me in those Mcdonald's commercials about online monopoly.
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